


MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 

1894. 



MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, s+.Uou^. 

PRESIDENT'S ADDREiS^,,, ^:^ 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



AND 



LIST OF MEMBERS 



JUNE i, 1894. 



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PRESS OF NtSON-JONKS PRINTING CO.. 

215 PINE STREET, 

ST. LODIS. 



MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
Founded 1866. 



PRESIDENTS 








James H. Lucas 1866-68 


Nathan Ranney 








1869-72 


Albert Todd 








1873-74 


John B. Johnson 








1875-76 


James G. Barry 








1877-78 


Peter L. Foy . 








1878-80 


Edwin Harrison 








1880-82 


George E. Leighton 








1882-90 


EmL Preetorius, Acting President 






1890-93 


Marshall S. Snow . 


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1894 



OFFICERS FOR 1894. 

President : 

Marshall S. Skow. 

First Vice-President: 
Emil Pkeetorius. 

Second Vice-President : 
Dr. Charles D. Stevens. 

Secretary : 
William J. Seever. 

Treasurer: 
Dr. Charles D. Stevens. 

Advisory Committee: 
George E. Leighton, 
Henry Hitchcock, 
John H. Terrt, 
Joseph Botce, 
Melvin L. Gray, 
Marshall S. Snow, ex-ojfficiG. 



PRESIDEIN^T'S ADDRESS. 



May 8, 1894. 



The seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries have each opened with decided hteraiy 
tendencies. The first dawned in the clear, growing 
light of the era of Elizabeth, when the early forces 
of English Literature were in full play. The 
second came forward with less fascination, with 
more tame and tempered light, as the Augustan 
Age of art. The third, the age of Scott, and 
Byron, and Shelley, and Wordsworth, restored us 
again to the impassioned power and freshness of 
the earlier period of the seventeenth century, 
and broke upon the English-speaking world 
in a day of creative energy, clothed anew with 
beauty and with strength. It is too early, perhaps, 
to characterize the middle and latter half of this 
century, which opened so auspiciously, in its rela- 
tions to those periods that have gone before and 
those that are to follow, i^ot until the issues of 
an age are seen can we certainly say for what it is 
making ready, in w^hat direction it is modif3qng 
the life it has received. Certainl}'" these midway 
years of the present century have not been dis- 
tinctively creative in literary art as compared with 



6 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

those that immediately preceded them. They 
seem rather to indicate a gentle subsidence of 
those inventive powers which so exultingly lifted 
the national mind in Scott, Byron and Words- 
worth. 

The present is a prose rather than a poetic era, 
notwithstanding the fact that more poetry is 
written to-day than ever before. Questions of 
science, new theories, new fictions, new presenta- 
tions of the life of past ages chase each other more 
rapidly around theEnghsh globe than new poems. 
While, however, it is a prose period, one of very 
diversified and very busy inquiry, of sharp and 
destructive criticism, of bold theory, and of 
practical reform everywhere and in everything, it 
can better be considered, while waiting for its 
final literary relations to disclose themselves, as a 
period of diffusion. In this particular it is broadly 
and nobly distinguished from every age that has 
gone before it. Above all ages our own deserves 
honor for this enlargement of thought, this 
scattering everywhere of some scant measure, at 
least, of the treasures of literary art. 

The scientific is, on the whole, the predominant 
phase of thought with us. Philosophy seems 
sometimes in danger of suffering disparagement ; 
historical, religious and social dogmas are kept in 
perpetual agitation and irritation by the bearing 
upon them of the scientific spirit, its theories and 
its facts. This science reaches the people in 
inventions and discoveries, in innumerable lines of 



PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 



industrial improvement. It is not content, how- 
ever, with this ; popularized in a o^reat variety of 
ways, it seeks and everywhere finds an enlarged 
and enlarging audience. 

The love of facts, near and remote, that belongs 
to all scientific study, shows itself nowhere more 
conspicuously in these days than in the study and 
the writing of history. Historical research, criti- 
cism and composition have been so enlarged in 
these recent years as to have opened practically 
new fields for scientific and painstaking inquiry. 

History, as preserved in written records, may be 
divided, according to its growth and scientific 
development, into three classes. First comes the 
simple chronicle of events, such as the annals kept 
by the monks in the medieval cloister, or the 
diary in which you and I note the state of the 
weather and the ordinary events of daily life. 
Then follows the plain, connected narrative, 
aiming at nothing but to tell the simple story, 
without seeking, or apparently caring for, the 
relations of cause and effect, as, for instance, the 
Chronicles of Froissart in the fourteenth century, 
or the History of England by Stowe and Holin- 
shed in the sixteenth century. Finally, when the 
scientific spirit is aroused, when the living, human 
character of the complex organism which we call 
the community, or the state, or the nation, is 
realized, living because moved and controlled by 
men, complex because it is subject to all the 
vagaries of contradictory human nature, and is not 



MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

an automatic machine — then comes the philoso- 
phy of history, the study of the leading forces 
which have wrought in it, of the facts which the 
chronicle and the simple narrative offer, in their 
relation to great, underlying, human causes and 
principles. Then history becomes a living thing 
and its study an inspiration to writer and student. 
Such study of history in a scientific and a philo- 
sophic spirit and method has this period of 
diffusion offered to the generations of the English- 
speaking world in this latter part of the nineteenth 
century, to say nothing of the wonderful develop- 
ment of this great work in many noble minds of 
France and of Germany. In this distinctively philo- 
sophic vein have worked such writers as Hallam 
and May and Stubbs in discussing the growth of 
the English Constitution ; Buckle and Lecky in 
the study of the great movements of historic 
civilization ; Stanley in treating of the Eastern and 
Jewish churches, to name only a few notable 
examples. So, also, history in the common 
acceptance of the term has been volmuinously 
written with more than wonted insight into the 
connection of events, and more than wonted 
wisdom in their selection. Kings and conquerors 
have ceased to occupy the entire historic stage, and 
the condition, customs, and opinions of the 
masses of men claim their share of attention. 
The list of historical writers has never been larger 
or indicated better perception or more power, 
either here or in England, than during the forty 



PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 9 

or fifty years which have just passed away. 
Macaulay, in impassioned eloquence, has made 
his special plea for the founders of the great Whig 
party which governed England, wisely, on the 
whole, for half a century after the revolution of 
1689. Greece and Rome and the life of their 
people have been brought to us as realities by the 
fascinating pages of Grote, and Arnold, and 
Merrivale. Babylon, and Mneveh, and Alexan- 
dria have been restored by the labors of Rawlinson 
and Wilkinson. Milman and Froude, Kinglake 
and Freeman have aroused a world's attention 
and criticism, antagonism and applause. 

T^or has our own country been wanting in great 
names to add to the list of modern, scientific, 
philosophical writers of history. A Bancroft, 
with somewhat ponderous tread, has led the way 
for the historians of the United States. A Prescott 
has proved that a work upon a purely historical 
subject may be made, as we so often say, more 
interesting than any novel. A Motley has fired 
our hearts in generous sympathy with a courageous 
people struggling successfully against bigotry and 
tyranny. A Parkman has opened to us the secret 
of the red man of the forest and unfolded the 
thrilling drama of the Fall of ^N'ew France. A 
Fiske has given us the culmination of a quarter of 
a century of philosophical study in his unsurpassed 
story of the Discovery of America. And these 
constitute but leading figures in the laborious 
group. The list of worthy names among Ameri- 



10 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

can writers of history grows at once too long to 
be repeated. With such methods as the modern 
historian uses, no history need any longer be dull 
and dry, as almost all history nsed to seem to us in 
our young days. 

Especially has the history of the United States 
benefited by the increased interest in general his- 
torical study awakened and developed during the 
last twenty-five years. Writers have entered upon 
the study of cause and effect in this field of 
inquiry with remarkable success. They have 
begun to unfold for us the daily life of our colonial 
and early national existence. They have made us 
see the great variety of the material which makes 
up our national structure, and have proved how 
susceptible such material is of decorative and 
picturesque treatment. Many familiar events have 
received new significance and force and have been 
shown to be important links in a never-ending 
chain of causal relations. One who heard John 
Fiske, for example, a few days ago, set forth so 
clearly some of the motives of the English gov- 
ernment in urging the taxation of the colonies, 
must have been struck by the emphasis which he 
laid upon the fact that George III was fighting, 
not only for the application of a principle in 
colonial policy, but for the same principle in the 
English boroughs; that the war-cry, "Taxation 
without representation is tyranny," was the motto 
of Parliamentary Reform which he hated, as well 
as of Colonial Independence which he denied. 



president's address. 11 

And yet many of us, perhaps all of us, can recol- 
lect how the histor3^-books of our boyhood treated 
the subject. That there was any connection 
between measures for the government of the col- 
onies and the opposition of the king to the grow- 
ing sentiment in favor of Parliamentary Keform 
was never thought of by the text-book maker or 
the village school-master. This is but one illus- 
tration among many to show how much fuller of 
meaning all historical work, even the most ele- 
mentary, is nowadays than it was fifteen, or twenty, 
or thirty years ago. 

In yet another way has this new impulse to his- 
torical study shown itself. 'NtdW and increasing 
interest in the general history of this country has 
been followed quite naturally by fruitful researches 
in state and county and town history. Local 
records have been re-examined, village traditions 
have been traced to their source, family letters 
have been reread and edited. Citizens who have 
played some part in the life of their own commun- 
ities, or, perchance, in the wider life of the nation, 
who have fought in the armies of the blue or the 
gray, have been inspired to tell the story of their 
share in public events, or in the simpler and semi- 
private life of the town or village. 

Local societies have sprung up to encourage the 
study of local history, to preserve the remains of 
earlier civilizations if any such exist in their neigh- 
borhood, to afford a place of deposit, not only for 
tangible objects like skulls and water-bottles, but 



12 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

for the legends and traditions and memories of the 
locaUty, to offer the opportunity to all lovers of 
historical study in general, or of local annals in 
particular, of a place of meeting for the inter- 
change and criticism of one another's views. In 
New England and "New York such societies have 
had a flourishing existence for several genera- 
tions. A few in the West date back fifty 
years ; the most of those in this part of the 
country belong to the post-bellum period. 
The Wisconsin Society at Madison, the Min- 
nesota Society at St. Paul, and the Louisiana 
Society at I*^ew Orleans are notable examples 
among many flourishing and useful organizations 
whose chief work has been accomplished during 
the past twenty-five years. About ten years ago 
the American Historical Association was organ- 
ized, and its yearly meetings held at the city of 
Washington have done much through papers and 
discussion to stimulate these local societies and the 
local historians. 

Actuated by a desire to do their part in such a 
useful work, nearly thirty years ago a number of 
well-known citizens of St. Louis formed them- 
selves into an association to be known as the 
Missouri Historical Society, "to encourage 
historical research and enquiry, spread historical 
information, especially within the State of Mis- 
souri, and also within the entire Mississippi 
Valley, and to embrace alike aboriginal and 
modern history." They declared in their Consti- 



president's address. 13 

tution that the particular objects of this Society 
shall be : — 

First, The establishment of a library of books and publica- 
tions appropriate to such an institution, with convenient works 
of reference, and also a cabinet of antiquities, relics, etc, ; 

Second, The collection into a safe and permanent depository 
of manuscripts, documents, papers and tracts, possessing a 
historical value and worthy of preservation ; 

Third, To encourage investigation of aboriginal remains, 
and more particularly to provide for the complete and scien- 
tific exploration and survey of such aboriginal monuments as 
exist within the limits of this State and the Mississippi Valley ; 

Fourth, To collect and preserve, in particular, such histori- 
cal materials as shall serve to illustrate the settlement and 
growth of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, and the 
Mississippi Valley. 

It is worth your while to listen to the names of 
honored citizens of a past generation, nearly all 
of whom have now gone to their reward, which 
appear in the certificate of incorporation, granted 
Feb. 7, 1872, about six years after the formation 
of the Society. 

These names are as follows : — 

James H. Lucas, William A. Lynch, 

Elihu H. Shepard, John F. Darby, 

William G. Eliot, Isaiah Forbes, 

Silas Bent, Green Erskine, 

Albert Todd, James G. Barry, 

Charles P. Chouteau, Joseph M. P. Nolan, 

Wilson Primm, William H. H. Russell, 

Henry Shaw, George Knapp, 

Nathan Ranney, Richard Dowling, 

John Knapp, John B., Johnson, 

James B. Eads, Edward Brooks. 



14 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Of these Mr. Chouteau, Mr. Eussell and Dr. 
Johnson are, I think, the only survivors, such 
havoc has death made in the short period of 
twenty-two years. These were the men of weight 
in St. Louis in their day and generation. They 
stood for all that was best in business life and in 
the learned and scientific professions. They 
were 

"Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their 
knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent 
in their instructions. 

" All these were honored in their generations, and were the 
glory of their times. 

"Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth 
forevermore." 

At the first business meeting for permanent 
organization officers were elected as follows : — 

President, James H. Lucas ; 
First Vice-President, William G. Eliot ; 
Second Vice-President, Wilson Pkimm ; 
Corresponding Secretary, William H. Cozzens ; 
Recording Secretary, Elihu H. Shepard ; 
Treasurer, John F. Darby. 

Much good work was done by these men and 
the company that gathered about them. A re- 
spectable library was slowly gathered. Relics of 
the St. Louis of ante-bellum days — now a mere 
memory in the life of the New St. Louis — were 
brought together. Portraits of persons identified, 
with the early history of the city were procured. 
Prehistoric remains of great interest were pur- 
chased and contributed. Papers of value were 



president's address. 15 

read by members, notably several concerning the 
early history of Louisiana by the late Bishop Rob- 
ertson, an enthusiastic and industrious historical 
student, whose library upon American History 
was presented after his untimely death to our 
Society by the late Henry Shaw. But the lack 
of a home for the Society and a place for display- 
ino- and using its rapidly accumulating collections 
was a serious drawback to its prosperity. Its meet- 
ings were held for many years in a room in the 
Polytechnic Building on the corner of Seventh and 
Chestnut streets, and afterwards in the Directors' 
room of Washington University. Its books and 
pictures and archaeological treasures were kept 
for several years in a basement room in the Court 
House, inaccessible and falling into decay. Mean- 
time attempts were made to secure a permanent 
abode for the Society. In 1872 Mr. Lucas gave 
to the Academy of Science and the Historical 
Society a lot of ground on Locust street near 
Thirteenth. It was hoped that funds could be 
raised by the two organizations and a building 
erected, and several efforts were made by both 
societies to get money for this purpose. These 
attempts failed, however, and in 1888 the lot was 
sold and the proceeds divided between the joint 
owners. Some time before this, however, through 
the aid of a public-spirited member of the Society, 
Col. George E. Leighton, the present property 
was acquired and the collections removed and put 
in order. ^N'ew life seemed to have been infused 



16 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

into the Association and our hopes were high for 
the future. Then followed after a while a season 
of neglect, for which all of us who were then on 
the roll of members and who failed in our duty, 
should blame ourselves. I do blame myself for 
becoming a permanent member of the Society 
many years ago, and failing to do my small part 
toward preserving its active and useful life. 

Within a few months an attempt has been made 
to put this old association upon its feet once 
more and to see if it cannot grow and strengthen 
and make use of the many opportunities all 
about us. 

The Missouri Historical Society is to be con- 
gratulated to-day on what it now has of value, not 
only as available assets financially, but as material 
for study and instruction in its own field of work. 
We have, in the first place, a roomy, commodious, 
well-lighted and conveniently situated building, 
which is our own property, not entirely free 
from incumbrance, but worth to-day in the 
market many thousand dollars above any obliga- 
tion resting upon it. It is clean and sweet from 
basement to attic, tastefully papered and painted 
and arranged very suitably for our purposes. Our 
library, although not a large one, has in it many 
rare and choice volumes concerning local and 
other American history. It is now arranged and 
accurately catalogued and ready for reference use. 
We have an archaeological collection unsurpassed, 
if, indeed, it is equaled in this, or any other 



president's address. 17 

country in the special line which it represents ; a 
collection which has a money value to-day of not 
less than twenty thousand dollars, and which will 
doubtless be much increased in the near future by 
gift and exploration. To any student of local 
history our portraits must be of great interest. The 
men who made St. Louis, who laid the foundations 
of her greatness, look down upon us from our 
walls. Here we may see the faces of Chouteau 
and Benton, of Engelmann and Eads, of Lucas and 
Turner, of Kemper and Robertson, of Beverly and 
Gerard B. Allen, of Bent and Todd, and of many 
others whose names are as household words in this 
city. 

In still another way our building is being made 
useful ; as a center to which may come kindred 
societies ; as affording convenient and pleasant 
rooms to such organizations as are in their own 
particular field working in full sympathy with our 
general aims and purposes. The idea of Mr. 
Lucas when he gave the land on Locust street that 
the Academy of Science and the Historical Society 
should unite in the occupancy of a building, has 
been in a measure realized here ; for the Academy 
has the use of our Assembly Room for its meetings 
and ample space on our third floor for its valuable 
library. The Engineers Club, also, makes our 
building its headquarters for meeting, conference 
and library purposes. A Grerman Medical Society, 
too, makes its home here. The amount received 
from these societies as rent makes our own burden 

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18 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

easier to cany, and we have the satisfaction of 
knowing- that we are instrumental in bringing 
together in sympathetic union men and associations 
of kindred tastes and purposes. Other societies will 
doubtless be glad to avail themselves of such 
comfort and convenience as we can offer, and thus 
many common interests may be served. 

As members of the Missouri Historical Society 
we have several distinct duties before us : — 

To do all in our power to increase our member- 
ship, not only that we may thus add to our revenue 
and our ability to make our building attractive, 
but that we may also widen the interest in the 
primary aims of the Society ; 

To show our own interest by attendance at the 
stated meetings of the Society and by visiting and 
studying our collections ; 

To urge our friends and acquaintances to come 
and see us and to take every fitting opportunity to 
suggest gifts or loans of historical relics of local 
interest ; 

To hold ourselves in readiness to contribute 
papers, personal reminiscences, traditions, any- 
thing which canjbe of value to our Society and add 
to the interest of our meetinojs. 

In St. Louis, the old French town, the border 
city, the early battle-ground in the first months of 
civil strife, the southwestern capital, there must 
be still many things not yet brought to the light 
of publicity which are of great value to our local 
history. Id the broader field of our State are yet 



president's address. 19 

to be gathered historical treasures from the 
memories of living men as well as from the relics 
of the dead yet undisturbed in their ancient graves. 
In the great valley in which we are placed is a still 
larger opportunity in which this Society ought to 
have an important share. 

And now, gentlemen, in conclusion, let me 
thank you most sincerely for the honor you have 
done me in choosing me to occupy the chair which 
has been so ably filled by many honored predeces- 
sors. Working with you and through you, aided 
continually by your counsel and advice, I shall 
endeavor to do my part to make the immediate 
future of the Missouri Historical Society worthy 
of its name, its founders and its friends. The 
work before us is worth doing, as that which has 
already been done was worth the labor it cost. Let 
us undertake this work and do it. 



20 MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



MUSEUM. 

The collections belonging to the Museum are now well dis- 
played in 37 handsome cases containing about 15,000 objects, 
fully representing the arts, customs and remains of the Abori- 
gines of this locality. Several thousand specimens are not on 
exhibition for want of cases. For what it purports to be, a 
purely local collection, this is said to be the best to be found any- 
where. At the Columbian Exposition in 1893, where it formed 
the Missouri State Archaeological Exhibit, it received marked 
attention from savants of our own country and from abroad, 
and was given several awards of merit by the committees. 

A very important addition to this department is the recent 
gift of Mr. George W. Allen, who has donated his entire 
collection of Mound Builders pottery ware, including some 
200 specimens of the various forms of bottles, vases, urns, 
dishes, bowls, animal, bird and fish forms, and human figures. 
The vessels were all obtained from ancient graves in mounds in 
Southeast Missouri, and fully represent the ceramic art of the 
primitive inhabitants of our country and especially of that 
particular region. 



PORTRAIT GALLERY. 

The already large and precious collection of portraits in oil 
of prominent citizens of the city and state is constantly increas- 
ing. Several have been added since January 1, 1894. 

Mr. Edward C. Dameron, in behalf of his sister, has pre- 
sented a very fine portrait of the late Peter Lindell. 

For an excellent likeness of the late John Byrne, Jr., painted 
in Rome, we are indebted to Dr. F. L. Haydel. 

Mr. Paul Beckwith has presented a painting of his uncle, 
Julius Paul, son of Col. Rene Paul, one of the early settlers in 
Saint Louis. 



LIBRARY. 21 

To Mrs. John P. Boyce we are indebted for an excellent 
likeness of Dr. Montrose Fallen, who was a practicing physician 
in this city for 37 years. 

Unmounted photographs for the albums of the Society have 
been presented by A. de Zelanoy of Russia, Reihn Hornell of 
Sweden, and Messrs. Lichtenfeldt, Engel, and Filley of 
Germany. 

These gentlemen represented their respective governments 
at the Columbian Exposition. 

LIBRARY. 

Since January 1, 1894, the accessions to our Library have 
been, — 113 volumes, 71 pamphlets, and 22 charts. The 
Library now contains about 4,100 volumes. 

Besides the gifts already mentioned, contributions for the 
Museum and Library have been received from the following 
persons since January 1 : — 

M. D wight Collier, Charles R. Green, Edwin Harrison, Dr. 
William Dickinson, Gerard Fowke, Capt. Carl F. Palfrey, 
Warren K. Moorehead, William J. Seever, the family of the 
late Bishop Robertson, Arata Hamao of Japan, Miss Wilcox, 
Gen. J. A. Hardeman, S. Waterhouse. 



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cois[Stitutio:n^. 



ARTICLE I. 



This Society shall be known as the Missouri Historical 
Society. 



ARTICLE II. 



The general object of this Society shall be to encourage 
historical research and inquiry, and to disseminate historical 
information, especially within the State of Missouri, and also 
within the entire Mississippi Valle5^ 

The particular objects of this Society shall be: First, The 
establishment of a library of books and pubHcations appropri- 
ate to such an institution, with convenient works of reference, 
and also a cabinet of antiquities, relics, etc. ; Second, The 
collection into a safe and permanent depository of manu- 
scripts, documents, papers and tracts, possessing a historical 
value and worthy of preservation ; Third, To encourage in- 
vestigation of prehistoric remains, and more particularly to 
provide for the complete and scientific exploration and survey 
of such prehistoric monuments as exist within the limits of 
this State and the Mississippi Valley ; Fourth, To collect and 
preserve in particular, such historical materials as shall serve 
to illustrate the settlement and growth of the City of St. 
Louis, State of Missouri, and the Mississippi Valley. 



CONSTITUTION. 23 



ARTICLE III. 



The regular officers of this Society shall be a President, two 
Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Librarian, 
who shall be Curator. 

All the above-named officers shall be chosen by ballot at the 
annual meeting of the Society, and shall hold their respective 
offices for one year and until their successors shall be duly 
elected and qualified. 

Vacancies occurring from any cause in any of the regular 
offices of this Society shall be filled by ballot at any regular 
meeting, notice of such election having been given by the Sec- 
retary in calling the meeting at which such election shall take 
place. 



ARTICLE IV. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

The membership of this Society shall be composed of four 
classes, viz. : Active, Life, Corresponding and Honorary. 

Any person of good moral character, may become an active 
member of this Society upon such conditions as may be pre- 
scribed in the By-Laws. 

Any person elected to be an active member, may, by the 
contribution of the sum of fifty dollars to the treasury of the 
Society, become a life member, with all the privileges of an 
active member, and thenceforth shall be exempt from all annual 
charges. 

Corresponding and Honorary members may be admitted to 
this Society upon such conditions as shall be prescribed in the 
By-Laws. 



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AKTICLE V. 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 

There shall be an Advisorj' Committee, composed of the 
President and five active members appointed by him at the 
annual meeting of the Society. 

They shall exercise general supervision over the museum, 
rooms and building of the Society ; they shall authorize the 
disbursement and expenditure of all money belonging to the 
Society, and no expenditure shall be made or ordered except 
upon their approval. 

They shall also act as a Committee on Donations, with power 
to accept or reject proposed gifts of books, pictures, or any 
material for the collections of the Society. 

They shall supervise the printing and distribution of all 
publications issued by the Society, and nothing shall be pub- 
lished without their approval. 

They shall consider all applications for membership, and 
offer such names for election as shall have been approved by 
them. 



ARTICLE VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

This^.Constitution may be amended by the vote of two-thirds 
of the members present at any regular meeting, provided that 
ten members shall be present; s^nd provided further , that any 
proposed amendment shall have been submitted at the last 
meeting previous to that at which the vote shall be taken. 



BY-LAWS. 25 



BY-LAWS. 



I. 

PRESIDENT. 



The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society, 
and perform such other duties as usually devolve on that oflScer. 



II. 

VI CE-PRESIDENTS . 

The Vice-Presidents, in the order of their election, shall, in 
the absence of the President, or in case of his death, resigna- 
tion, or inability to act, perform his duties. 

III. 

SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall keep a record of all the meetings of the 
Society, which record shall be duly signed and certified by 
him and read at the opening of the succeeding meeting for 
information and revision. He shall have charge of the seal, 
charter, certificates, and records of the Society. He shall also 
duly notify the active members of all meetings, and all new 
members of their election. 

All written communications relating to the Society and its 
work which may be received by him shall be duly preserved 
and deposited with the collections of the Society, and a report 
of the same shall be made by him at its next meeting. 

He shall also act as Secretary of the Advisory Committee. 



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IV. 

LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR. 

The Librarian sliall liave cliarge of the library and cabinet, 
including all manuscripts, papers and documents in the pos- 
session of the Society. He shall prepare a suitable catalogue 
of the same, and have all papers and manuscripts properly 
numbered, filed or arranged for security and convenient refer- 
ence. He shall keep an account of all books taken from the 
library by the members, or any person specially authorized to 
do so by the Society, and by whom taken, and mark their 
return. He shall in no case allow manuscripts to be taken 
from his custody, or copies of the same to be made, or articles 
to be removed from the cabinet, without express permission 
from the Advisory Committee. 

He shall also keep a record of all donations, in a book for 
that purpose, giving date of donations, how received, name 
and residence of donor, a full description of books, pictures, 
manuscripts, pamphlets, antiquities, or relics presented, and 
the acknowledgment made to the donor. It shall also be his 
duty to provide for the full security of all books and collec- 
tions belonging to the Society, by reporting, as occasion may 
require, their condition, and to recommend such steps as he 
shall judge necessary for their perfect preservation, and to 
make an annual report in writing to the Society of all donations, 
and the general condition of the cabinet and library. He shall 
receive for his services a compensation which shall be fixed by 
vote of the Society. 

V. 

TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect and have charge of the funds 
and securities of the Society. He shall pay no money except 
by a vote of the Society, or by order of the Advisory Com- 
mittee. He shall keep regular and faithful accounts in proper 
books of the Society of all money and securities of the 



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Society that may come into his hands, and of all receipts and 
expenditures connected with the same, and shall present a 
full and accurate report thereof to the Society at their annual 
meeting. His accounts shall always be open to the inspection 
of the Advisory Committee. 



VI. 



The regular meetings of this Society shall be held on the 
second Thursday of each month, from November to April 
inclusive, and the December meeting shall be the annual 
meeting. 

Special meetings may be called by the President, or, in case 
of his absence, by one of the Vice-Presidents, for the dis- 
patch of extraordinary business, of which seasonable notice, 
in writing, shall be given to all the active members. 

VII. 

QUORUM. 

Five active members shall constitute a quorum at any meet- 
ing, except at the annual meeting for the election of officers, 
when the required number shall be ten active members. 

VIII. 

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

Any person recommended by the Advisory Committee may 
become an active member of the Society upon the approval by 
ballot of a majority of the members present at any regular or 
special meeting. 

Corresponding members, not residents of the State of Mis- 
souri, and Honorary members may be elected upon the 
same conditions as active members. Such members shall 
have the right to attend any of the meetings of the So- 
ciety, and to participate in any scientific or historical discus- 



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sioDS, but they shall not vote nor hold any office, and they 
shall be exempt from all dues or assessments. 



IX. 

DUES. 

The annual assessment payable by every active member, not 
a life-member, shall be five dollars. 

Any active member who shall fail to pay the regular assess- 
ment before the annual meeting next succeeding shall forfeit 
his membership, if it be so determined by the Advisory Com- 
mittee, to whom all such cases of delinquency shall be referred. 

X. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

1. Eeading of Minutes. 

2. Reports. 

3. Donations and Correspondence. 

4. Elections. 

5. Unfinished Business. 

6. Miscellaneous Business. 



XI. 

AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS. 

These By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote at any 
meeting of the Society ; provided notice of such proposed 
amendment shall have been sent to every active member at 
least three days before such meeting. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



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LIST OF MEMBEKS. 



(Those marked with an asterisk are Life-Members.) 



Alden, John T. 
Allison, Jas. W. 

Barlow, S. D. 
*Barnard, George D. 
Barnett, Geoi'ge I. 
Bartlett, George M. 
*Bent, Miss Mary L. 
*Billon, F. L. 
Blair, James L. 
*Bofinger, John N. 
*Boyee, Joseph. 
*Boyce, John P. 
Boyle, W. F. 
Bradbury, Frank. 
Broadhead, James O. 
Brookings, Robert S. 
Broome, Dr. George Wiley. 
Bryson, Dr. John P. 
*Buschman, F. W, 
Bushnell, D. I. 
*Bush, Isidor. 
Busch, Adolphus. 

Cadle, Henry, Bethany, Mo 
Callahan, E. G., Kingston, N, 
Carpenter, George O. , Jr. 
*Catlin, Daniel. 
Chaplin, Chancellor W. S. 



*Chapman, J. G. 
Chouteau, Charles P. 
Clark, Charles. 
Clark, Henry L. 
Collet, Oscar W. 
Collier, M. Dwight. 
Collins, Martin. 
Comstock, Dr. T. G. 
*Crane, Arba N. 
Crunden, F. M. 
*Cummings, J. K. 

Dameron, E. C. 

Davis, Horatio N. 

Davis, John D. 

*Daughaday, Hamilton. 

*Delafield, Wallace. 

DeWolf, E. A. 

Dillon, John A., New York, N.Y. 

Drake, George S. 

Durkee, Dwight. 

*Durkee, Miss Laura. 

Edgell, George S., 

New York, N. Y. 
Y.Eliot, Henry W. 
Elliott, Howard. 
Elliott, Robert., 

Hannibal, Mo. 



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Emmons, George B. 
Endres, John. 
Erskine, Frank. 



*Holmes, Charles. 
Howe, J. Clarke. 
Huse, W. L. 
Hutchinson, R. R. 
*Hyde, William. 



Faust, Anthony E. 

Filley, Chauncey I. 

Fleet, Col. A. F., Mexico, Mo. *Ittner, Anthony. 

Fletcher, Thomas C. 

Foy, Peter L. 

Fraley, Moses. 

*Franklin, Joseph. 

*Frost, Gen. D. M. 

FuUerton, Gen. Joseph S. 

*Furth, Jacob. 



*Garesche, A. J. P. 
Gehner, August. 
*Gibson, Charles. 
*Gibson, Gerolt. 
Gilbert, W. J. 
Gordon, Lindell. 
Gray, Melvin L. 
Green, Dr. John. 
Greene, Oliver H. 
Gregory, Charles R. 

Haarstick, Henry C. 
*Haeusler, Herman. 
♦Harris, Mrs. Alma. 
Harrison, Edwin. 
*Hart, Oliver A. 
Haydel, Dr. F. L. 
*Hennessy, Rt. Rev. 
Hicks, Prof. F. C, 



Jaccard, D. C. 
Johnson, Charles P. 
Johnson, Prof. J. B. 
Judson, F. N. 



*Kehr, E. C. 
Kennett, A. Q. 
King, Goodman. 
Kolbenheyer, Dr. F. 

Lackland, R. J. 
Lane, Frank A. 
*Leete, Dr. James M. 
Leighton, George Bridge. 
*Leighton, Col. George E. 
Lemp, William J. 
Lindsley, Dr. DeCourcey. 
Louderman, Jas. H. 
Louderman, Jno. H. 
Lubke, G. W. 
Lucas, J. B. C. 
Lynch, George N. 

*McKee, Miss Ellen J. 
*McKeighan, J. E. 
McKittrick, Hugh. 



Columbia, Mo.McNamara, J. H. 



Hitchcock, Henry. 
♦Holland, Rev. R. A. 



Madill, George A. 
Manny, E. A. 



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Markham, George D. 
*Mason, Isaac M. 
Matthews, Leonard. 
Moore, Robert. 
Morrill, Henry L. 
Morton, I. W. 
Mudd, Dr. H. H. 

Nagel, Charles. 

O'Fallon, Benjamin. 
O'Reilly, Dr. P. S. 
O'Reilly, Dr. R. J. 
O'Reilly, Dr. Thomas. 
Orthwein, Chas. F. 

*Papin, Theophile. 
Parker, George W. 
Parsons, Charles. 
*Peper, Christian, Jr. 
*Prather, J. G. 
*Preetorius, Edward. 
*Preelorius, Dr. Emil. 
Priest, John G. 
Pritchett, Prof. H. S. 



Sellers, .John M. 
Senseney, Dr. E. M. 
*Shapleigh, A. F. 
Simon, H. T. 
Smith, Dr. D. S. H. 
*Snow, Prof. Marshall S. 
*Spaunhorst, H. J. 
Speck, Charles. 
Spencer, Dr. H. N. 
*Stanley, Henry. 
*Stevens, Dr. Charles D. 

Taussig, Charles S. 
*Taussig, George W. 
Taussig, Dr. William. 
Terry, Albert T. 
*Terry, John H. 
*Thompson, W. B. 
Thomson, William H. 
Todd, George W. 
Treat, Hon. Samuel. 
Turner, Gen. John W. 
*Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel S. 

Vogel, Charles F. 



*Rosenheim, Morris. 
*Rowse, Edward S. 

Sands, James T. 
Scruggs, R. M. 
Sears, Edmund H. 
Seever, William J. 



*Walsh, Edmund P. 
Weigel, Eugene. 
Wells, Rolla. 
•Whitaker, Edwards. 
Whittemore, R. B. 
Wilcox, W. H. 
*Woerner, J. G. 



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